Finished 2025: Faith of the Founders: Religion and the New Nation, 177… by Edwin S. Gaustad 📚
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before– a bunch of Unitarians and Deists walk into a bar together…
This was a good summary of how “the firm foundations set down in the colonial era had been rudely shaken by a Revolution that was more anticlerical than most historians recognize, by a Constitution that acknowledged no God, and a First Amendment that permitted no national church.”